Principal DevOps Engineer

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Founded in 2014, Even Financial is a B2B fintech company that is transforming the way financial institutions find and connect with consumers. As the leading search, comparison, and recommendation engine for financial services, Even seamlessly bridges financial institutions (including American Express, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi) and channel partners (such as TransUnion and MoneyLion) via its simple yet robust API and embeddable marketplaces. Even turns any consumer touchpoint into an ROI-driven, fully customizable, programmatic acquisition source with full compliance and security at scale. Even’s investors are leading financial services firms and VCs, including American Express Ventures, Canaan Partners, Citi Ventures, F-Prime Capital (Fidelity), Greatpoint Ventures, Goldman Sachs, LendingClub, and MassMutual Ventures. Even placed in the Top 50 of the 2020 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, awarded to the fastest growing tech companies in the world, and has originated over $3B in credit to date.


As a Principal DevOps Engineer, you will provide technical leadership to the DevOps team as we scale our platform to new heights while maintaining best practices for security and reliability. Even’s traffic has tripled over the last year and we are looking to scale by orders of magnitude in the coming year. You will own the quality of the DevOps architecture and systems and have a complete understanding of our microservices-based platform, while being a valued member of a fast growing, dynamic team. You will serve as a thought leader and SME for DevOps and infrastructure practices throughout the company, and liaison with the broader Engineering team to apply automation and scaling improvements throughout the organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the architecture and infrastructure for a microservice infrastructure that follows AWS best practices using Terraform
  • Architect and engineer a new platform using Kubernetes with modern tooling
  • Triage and fix production infrastructure issues, work to perform root cause analysis and own follow up to ensure issues are resolved, and participate in on-call rotations
  • Act as a liaison between the DevOps team and the rest of the engineering organization, providing knowledge and assistance, and guidance for best practices
  • Own technical implementations for security best practices and provide knowledge and support for compliance with industry practices & benchmarks (SOC2 / CIS / NIST)
  • Improve CI/CD solutions within Even and extend them for DevOps
  • Write and provide feedback on RFCs for new features in our collaborative design process
  • Review code with an emphasis on readability, maintainability and standards
  • Improve developer workflow and work to establish new patterns to improve developer efficiency and overall automation

Qualifications:

  • At least ten years of experience within the broader DevOps field, responsible for user-facing production workloads using container and serverless technologies
  • Experience in writing and maintaining code in more than one programming language
  • Experience scaling applications in Java-based languages 
  • Experience working in compliant environments (PCI, SOC2, NIST) and dealing with compliance requirements, overall security posture and strategy
  • Experience with architecting and automating cloud native technologies
  • Experience with Kubernetes & Kubernetes ecosystems
  • Experience maintaining and architecting systems using Terraform
  • Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana/InfluxDB, Nagios, Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic etc.)
  • Experience building tools for automation (building, testing, releasing, monitoring and alarming)
  • Experience with continuous integration systems (CircleCI)
  • Experience with Docker and Docker ecosystems, especially as it relates to developer experience

Full time employees are eligible for the following benefits:

Comprehensive medical/dental/vision packages + life and disability insurance

401K retirement plans

Stock options

Company paid holidays

Uncapped paid time off (PTO)


We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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